The world keeps chanting, “You are what you achieve.” Jesus breaks through with a better word: “Come to me, and I will give you rest.”

It sounds humble. But it’s not. That quiet voice in your head saying, 'It’s pointless to hope,' isn’t realism—it’s rebellion in disguise. Irrational fatalism dresses up despair as wisdom, but underneath, it quietly accuses God of being absent, indifferent, or untrustworthy. The Cross says otherwise